Annalee Newitz
Annalee Newitz
Annalee Newitzis an American journalist, editor, and author of both fiction and nonfiction. She is the recipient of a Knight Science Journalism Fellowship from MIT, and has written for periodicals such as Popular Science and Wired. From 1999 to 2008 she wrote a syndicated weekly column called Techsploitation, and from 2000–2004 she was the culture editor of the San Francisco Bay Guardian. In 2004 she became a policy analyst at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. She also co-founded other magazine with...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
CountryUnited States of America
'The Red' delivers intense action, leavened by a genuinely sympathetic portrait of soldiers caught up in battles they never chose.
Turning a zombie pandemic into a generic disaster movie robs the zombies of their dirty, nasty edginess and robs the disaster of its epic scope.
You are ruled by change whether you like it or not, and io9's future path lies with joining a larger site that covers technology as well as science and science fiction.
Fifty years ago, historians advised politicians and policy-makers. They helped chart the future of nations by helping leaders learn from past mistakes in history. But then something changed, and we began making decisions based on economic principles rather than historical ones. The results were catastrophic.
It is true that I will confess that I have an incredible fascination for pop-culture stories about the Apocalypse and the end of the world.
The novel 'World War Z' is told from the perspectives of so many people - speaking to the narrator - that there's no way a movie could capture all of them. Still, the idea of turning a zombie pandemic into a war story is fascinating and could have translated easily to film.
Economic systems rise and fall just like empires. That's the kind of perspective we need to take if we hope to prosper for centuries rather than for the next quarter.
Watching 'Interstellar' is really like watching two movies slowly collide with each other.
When I was a journalist at Wired, I convinced a doctor to implant an RFID tracking device in my arm.
When I was a policy analyst at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, I became obsessed with end user license agreements.
When I was a lecturer at UC Berkeley, I wrote a book about monsters.
'World War Z' is basically a big-budget B-movie.
We're seeing a new 'Gilded Age,' where inheritance is a deciding factor in who becomes the wealthiest.
We believe that shield laws should apply to anyone gathering information and reporting to the public regardless of the medium, ... If you are gathering that information for your blog, you should qualify and you should be protected.